Aries

Week of May 20th

Your tradition is calling you. This might mean that you are called back home, or that you are called to act from your career or public position. It definitely means that you have to address a shadow, in your history or your legacy. Lead others in healing this. For so many of us right now, the hard things are being dragged into the light, and we are being forced to acknowledge them with honesty. You will be judged by the strength of your character, so be thoughtful about your choices here. Act with integrity. Mercury cazimi in Gemini, thankfully, offers you the words you need at this time.

Week of May 13th

This week is all about practicing the self-love and self-worth that leaves you open and ready to accept abundance. Venus moving into Taurus is all about the arrival of material abundance, swift and sure. You have to believe that you deserve it first though. I’m giving you and Libra the same affirmation this week: “I am ready to receive.” Your ruler Mars is also moving into Cancer, suggesting that the material resources will help to nurture your home and family. Saturday’s full moon in Scorpio invites you to open yourself further to the mystery of this energy we call money. Practice expecting more.

Week of May 6th

If you were focused on manifesting material possessions or wealth at the new moon on Saturday, the changes come swiftly. They may arrive in unexpected ways. A sudden realization about your values, or a sudden insight about your self-worth, could shift your direction. You are nurturing a vision of home and family, and love is the most valuable thing you can have right now. Last week’s advice still applies: let security come from within. Material stability always comes from within before it takes a physical form.

Week of April 29th

Your public image continues to undergo its slow transformation this week. An old version of your vocation is passing, and perhaps a new version is already being born, or will be eventually. This is not the kind of adventure you would prefer: fast, fun, and ending with you in first place. This is the death-rebirth process that means you’re tearing down old structures with no idea yet how they will be replaced. It might feel like a crisis. This week, practice being okay with where you are, right in the middle of the mess. The new moon in Taurus offers an opportunity for a renewal of self-worth, or the manifestation of material possessions. Let security come from within.

Week of April 22nd

You are awakened to your own self-worth this week. Something about your values, your money, or your talents comes to light, and afterwards, things are never quite the same. You will need self-love to make this change. You will need to love others for who they are and allow them to help you. You’re in the process of rewilding your attitudes to money, to your own worth, and to how you will live out your values. An opportunity may present itself for you to use some previously latent talent.

Week of April 15th

With Mercury and Venus entering your sign this week, you’re focused on using your most authentic voice. Think, speak, and relate to others from a place of knowing your true self. Address the wounds that come from growing up in a society that places the same expectations on all children. So often our authentic identities are unintentionally masked by identities that represent what we think of as success. How do you define success? The full moon in Libra highlights long-term changes in your legacy. Something is being composted because you are in the midst of a wild shift in your values. Run with it.

Week of April 8th

The career situation is serious right now. You’re determining a direction for yourself and assessing the type of legacy you want to leave. This is a rebirth process—an old version of your vocation must be laid to rest so that you can build upon or transform your career in this next phase. The hidden knowledge of intuition, dreams, or spirits can help you with this. Something about your path bears reconsideration at this stage. Remember that the people, places, and ideas you choose to nurture should matter deeply to you.

Week of April 1st

Sleep is still everything for you right now. Mercury conjunct Neptune in your house of endings makes it hard to see the threshold you are crossing now. Dreams that feel confusing now may reveal something important later. All beginnings start with endings, and this week keeps you in that liminal phase that you were in throughout March’s Mercury retrograde. Rest and patience are the only practical strategies now. Friday’s new moon presents you with another small cycle of beginnings. You must use your natural drive and your thirst for new adventures to overcome a challenge in your career. Create a brave new legacy.

Week of March 25th

Venus moves into Pisces on Tuesday, helping you to continue meditating on (and eventually clarify) some of your more confusing Mercury retrograde dreams. Sleep is everything this week. Make it a priority. Rest, restore, and enter the dreamworld of which science still knows so little. There are messages to be delivered there. If you have been feeling trapped this month, hopefully Mercury’s direct motion on Thursday will begin a kind of release. During your waking hours, this week presents another challenge in your career, and an opportunity to make important decisions. On Sunday, Mars moves into Gemini, and you are driven onward by your curiosity.

Week of March 18th

Your season is beginning, and with it the start of a brave new year. This Spring Equinox full moon is about themes of self and other for everyone, but most blatantly of all for you. Chiron is teaching you to show up whole, authentically. Sometimes that means lowering your weapons and presenting yourself without defense. It means letting someone else see you as you are. It’s about telling them what they mean to you, and sometimes, compromising your wishes for their happiness. Celebrate personal beginnings with a close friend or partner this week.

Week of March 11th

Look for hidden obstacles this week. Something previously invisible could now be revealed, opening the way forward. When Mercury is retrograde in Pisces, symbolic thinking is more appropriate than logical thinking. Valid clues to the secret may include emotions, psychic sensations, dreams, tea leaves, images, snatches of conversation overheard, or a tune floating out of a bodega. Double down on what you value and revise plans as needed.

Week of March 4th

Mercury stations retrograde in the invisible realms of your chart on Tuesday. This is the house of things you keep hidden, sometimes even from yourself. Your relationship with spirit could deepen over this period. Synchronicity abounds, especially with the Pisces new moon on Wednesday. Allow the healing waters to wash over you. Float out to sea, letting go of concern about your destination, or whether you’ll arrive first. You may find that your dreams are especially potent. Sleep is especially important this week—with Uranus leaving your sign, you may find that rest is a bit easier to come by.

You have awakened a whole new self since Uranus started transiting your sign eight years ago. It’s been a complete reinvention, and there’s no going back now. On Wednesday, Uranus in Taurus re-awakens your value consciousness. What I mean by this is your set of values, especially your relationship to money and possessions. Making money and doing good business could become an art for you with Uranus here. You may find inventive ways of attracting more money to you, saving, and investing it. You might even be on the cutting edge of blockchain technology, and any other economic innovations Uranus helps us come up with while he’s in Taurus. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. Money is a neutral energy you can tap into, but our society weighs it down with all kinds of judgment and baggage. Your newfound money consciousness can be a very good thing! You could also decide that you want to place more value on the things money can’t buy: re-wilding the environment or championing feminist values make perfect sense for this transit. However you approach this, you’re radically reinventing your value system.

Week of February 25th

Between Chiron moving into your sign, all of the Pisces-season energy, and this stony mountain of Capricorn slowing you down on your ascent to greatness, you must be exhausted. Rest. It’s your season to chill anyway. The beginning of this week gives you some time to just reflect. On Friday there may be a spark of movement for you in your career, and when Venus moves into Aquarius, your social life. Spring is on it’s way; you can feel it. Store up your energy so you can enjoy the warm days ahead.

Week of February 18th

Chiron is jumping back into your sign on Monday. Your new roomie is replacing the old one (Uranus) and cleaning up after him. No doubt Uranus has been fun to play with -- giving you lightening-bolt ideas, blowing stuff up, morphing the old you into Future You at warp speed. But there may be some unfinished business that Uranus is too impatient to address. Like how it’s easy for you to present yourself as a strong leader, but much harder for you to show others your vulnerability. That’s where Chiron comes in. He’ll help you heal any wounds that you have around your true identity, so that you can show up in your life and relationships more authentically. Go into the emotions; let them move through you. The sun’s move into Pisces and the full moon in Virgo accentuate the healing theme for you, asking you to adapt throughout the week. Hold space for the spiritual, for rest, for self-care and emotional moments, even as your career demands so much of you.

Week of February 11th

This week is about one of your greatest strengths and paradoxically, the potential for your self-destruction: anger. Anger can be a force for healing, a fire that sweeps through you and alerts you to your boundaries, fueling you with the courage to take a stand. If we hold on to it, anger can also be destructive, poisoning your life with bitterness, resentment, and even violence or depression. Remain conscious of your anger this week, especially on Wednesday. Ask it what it can teach you; use it, then let go of it. Valentine’s Day is likely to be quiet this year, perhaps a day devoted to the more practical side of life. On Sunday, though, you have the potential to manifest beautiful things from your imagination.

Week of February 4th

This new moon is all about refreshing your commitment to your community. Whether it’s the town where you live, a group of friends, the activist community at large, your audience of online fans, or another type of network—it’s a week for enjoying the company of others. Fresh ideas and engaging conversations lift your spirits now. Towards the end of the week, you will be driven to speak up for yourself. You have a mission to make a home for yourself in the world, and that may mean scaling back on some of the career achievements that were so important to you in the past. Don’t let the expectations of others pull you away from your heart’s desire. On Sunday, when Mercury enters Pisces, you begin a two-month journey through the inner reaches of the mind.

Week of January 28th

Brilliant ideas may come from others at group gatherings this week. Stay socially engaged and keep your ears open. You have support for making dreams come true in your career now, as long as you put in the hours. Get clarity on your vision and then structure your work accordingly. On Friday, you may encounter a challenge in this area. It’s an opportunity to transform a system or personal issue that’s been blocking you from achieving your best. This weekend, an urge for freedom may make you want to go in a totally different direction, but don’t abandon all of your plans. Once Venus is in Capricorn, your efforts are even more visible.

Week of January 21st

Opportunities for travel, learning, and/or personal and spiritual growth may come to you this week. In the aftermath of an eclipse that called you to express yourself authentically, you may feel like your attempts to do so are blocked by some inertia in your vocation. Steady progress is not such a bad thing. Assert yourself with the knowledge that you have time to do this well. Meanwhile, Aquarius season for you is all about connecting with others and taking part in community. Find out what others have to offer before you vow to do it all by yourself.

Week of January 14th

Inspiration comes to you this week. You may be inspired to travel, to learn or teach, or to expand your vision for the future. Certainly, you are in the process of transforming your career. Take the time to mourn what has ended for you—the public image that needed to evolve, or the job that wasn’t quite fitting your purpose. This eclipse highlights the most creative, generative part of your chart. It’s the last in a cycle that has taught you to be more authentic, and helped you find the courage to share your gifts with others.

Week of January 7th

Slow and steady now. You have all of these aspects telling you to charge in, which is your usual M.O. Though your passion is very important for this next phase of your career, it’s just as important to have patience, plan, and allow the transformation to unfold. This week, play with the vision. See if new images arise when you close your eyes and dream of where you want to go. You’re playing a long game right now, writing another chapter in the story of your vocation through 2020. Envision far and wide.

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Bustle quoted me again, this time in an article about how to tell if someone with air sign placements is crushing on you. Link in bio!⠀
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"In order for an air sign to really start crushing on you, they'll need to connect with you on an intellectual level first. "Good conversation is essential to them," Goss says. So they may ask for your opinion on things like politics, pop culture, or anything that's worth talking about. According to Goss, air signs are the most driven by the exchange of ideas. "This lets them show off their natural intelligence and cleverness," she says. "They also do it because they really want to get to know you."⠀
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Image Credit: Andrew Zaeh for Bustle.⠀
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Just for fun! I was featured in Bustle's article on earth signs. Want to know if a Taurus, Virgo, or Capricorn is crushing on you? Link in bio.⠀
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'"Earth signs deal with the realm of the material, so someone with earth sign placements is likely to show romantic interest in material and practical ways," Goss says. They may show their interested through physical touch. For instance, they may place their hand on your arm when you're touching or stay close when you're walking together.'⠀
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Your weekly horoscopes are up! Link in bio.⠀
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Mercury enters Taurus today, where he slows down and contemplates before speaking, if he speaks at all. Mercury here is more about doing: growing things, building things, and expressing oneself through the manifestation of effort. Actions speak louder than words now. Mercury meets Uranus, sometimes called the higher octave of Mercury, in this sign (exact May 8th). Again, those themes of rewilding, radical pleasure, and the economy come to the forefront. What are you doing to rewild?⠀
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Some of that knowing comes through your nightdreams. Some of it comes through your daydreams: those visions of your future self that you just know are going to be real. You know it in your bones. If you tried to explain the embodied knowledge of your daydream self to someone else, that person might think you were talking about a wish, not a knowing. But if your body knows that something is true, you have to trust that. You don't have to tell anyone about it, and in fact it might feel safer not to. Let them be mystified. Go with your gut. Trust your bones.⠀
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It's Beltane and I'm taking the day to do some non-business-related activities: reading, writing poetry, planting, and candle-making. I don't think about having a "balance" between "work" and "life" because so much of my work now is a joy, and I'm grateful for that. I think instead about the wheel of my life: business, creative play, health, home, relationships, spirituality...and how much attention everything is getting. Is every plant in the garden of my life getting water and sunlight? Some need more than others at different times.
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In reading Team Human, I'm confronting my complicity with algorithmic systems like Instagram, designed to capture attention, persuade us to purchase, extract data, and keep us hungry for more. It's a sick system that I have chosen to avoid as much as possible in my personal life. The conundrum is in running a business when social media has become the marketplace. I am also here to persuade, but I am more interested in commerce, in running a sustainable business, than I am in constant growth. I want to reach those who are ready to awaken their consciousness with astrology and coaching so I can help them recover their own power and transcend this exploitative game. And I'm on here because I have to meet you where you are. Maybe my way of being a spoilsport is to invite you to read long book passages on a photo app, and to make those book passages about breaking the system?
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Oh, and btw, I got this from the public library. It's great; it's like an IRL internet where you can access all kinds of knowledge for free, except the information is much more likely to be accurate. + NO ADS.
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Read Team Human. Find the Others.
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Your weekly horoscopes are up! Link in bio.⠀
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Saturn stations retrograde at 21 degrees of Capricorn today. Just like every year, this retrograde lasts about 4 ½ months. Saturn will station direct at 14 degrees of Capricorn on September 18th. If you have personal planets between 14-21 degrees of Cardinal signs, you’re getting another taste of this salty Saturn transit this summer. This is yet another opportunity to reflect on your relationship to responsibility. What do you expect to reap, based on what you’ve sown so far? Are any of your actions out of alignment with your sense of integrity? Recognize real limitations and either work within them or work hard to push beyond them in responsible ways.⠀
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Image: Zodiac symbols painted Relief on the terrace of a Gopuram at Kanipakam Lord Shiva temple, via Wikimedia Commons⠀
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Happy to hear this feedback from my client Desiree, after her Story of You Consultation last week!⠀
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Want to tie some things together in your own life? Book a session! Use the link in my bio.⠀
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Have you ever reached that point when you were so clear on what you had to do that the fear dropped away?⠀
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Fear has no chance when our minds are made up. Fear loosens its grip on us when we have clarity about what must be done.⠀
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Clarity has that power. It diminishes fear the way light chases away the darkness.⠀
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What do you know is right? What do you know you have to do? What difference do you know you can make, right now, today? ⠀
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I was trying to do work @cocoagrinder but then I found this Mysteries of the Unknown series that Time-Life published in the 80s so nevermind.
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As the moon waxed to total fullness last night, I was in a room full of amazing women talking about equal pay with @ladiesgetpaid & @hiredinc. I went to this event to watch a microdocumentary about the gender pay gap, and listen to a panel of successful women talk about how we can close it. I heard stories from women who found out that they were making as much as $80,000 less than their male coworkers for doing the same job. And by the way, it's not because women don't negotiate. We do; we just don't get the salaries we ask for. We need to continue to ask for the money we deserve. We need to do research to find out what other people are being paid for the same jobs and experience, we need more pay transparency, and we need to hold companies accountable for compensation equality. There are a lot of things people say to make this issue seem more complicated, about women leaving work to have kids, or being overrepresented in underpaid jobs like teaching. But it's not really a complicated issue. It's simple discrimination. And the simple answer would be to value women and the work that women do the way we value the contributions of men. And pay us all equally. Now. This is what the higher potential of Uranus in Taurus represents to me: changing the economy. Knowing our worth. Rising up and demanding what we deserve. ⠀
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More on this + the Libra full moon in the Lunar Letter. Read & subscribe thru the link in my bio!⠀
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